INTD 200 Chapter Notes -Western Culture, Cultural Relativism, Welfare Rights
16 Dec 2013
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The history of human rights: from ancient times to the globalization era. Ishay, micheline r: cultural relativism versus universalism. One of the most intense debates within the human rights community is the one pitting universalities of liberal or socialist persuasions against cultural relativists. 3 historical misconceptions have confused this debate: 1. The tendency to lump together second- and third- generation rights: 2. The effort to collapse first- and second- generation rights into a single. The third is rooted in ignorance of the western roots of third-generation rights. Fusing socialist and cultural rights views into one philosophical tradition overlooks important differences that exist between these two traditions. For instance, second- generation socialists have long criticized the third-generation conception of group rights or rights to self-determination. Efforts to fuse liberal and socialist perspectives on rights into one western philosophical tradition echo the current third world litany against western cultural values. After centuries of colonialism and an accelerating globalization process dominated by.
